Jim Magilton wasn’t out of the game for long joining Queens Park Rangers as manager in June 2009 on a two year contract.

This proved to be a short lived appointment as he left the club by mutual consent six months later.

Magilton then went onto assist Michael O’Neill at Shamrock Rovers and then had a short spell at Australian A-League side Melbourne Victory before taking on his current role as elite performance director at the Irish Football Association and manager of their U21s side.